I'm trying to get a BroadcastReceiver invoked when the screen is turned on. In my AndroidManifest.xml I have specified :

                <receiver android:name="IntentReceiver">
                    <intent-filter>
                            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON"></action>
                    </intent-filter>
                </receiver>

However it seems the receiver is never invoked (breakpoints don't fire, log statements ignored). I've swapped out SCREEN_ON for BOOT_COMPLETED for a test, and this does get invoked.

This is in a 1.6 (SDK level 4) project.

A Google Code Search revealed this, I downloaded the project and synced it, converted it to work with latest tools, but it too is not able to intercept that event.

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#_8L9bayv7qE/trunk/phxandroid-intent-query/AndroidManifest.xml&q=android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON

Is this perhaps no longer supported?

Previously I have been able to intercept this event successfully with a call to Context.registerReceiver() like so

registerReceiver(new BroadcastReceiver() {

  @Override
  public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    // ... 
  }
}, new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_SCREEN_ON));

However this was performed by a long-living Service. Following sage advice from CommonsWare I have elected to try to remove the long-living Service and use different techniques. But I still need to detect the screen off and on events.